Replying to
@aral
There's a similar rhetoric coming from the zionist settlers in Palestine rhapsodizing over some imaginary democracy that their illegitimate colony once had. Even if we set aside everything else, there was a "Military Governance" over the Palestinian citizens until 1 December 1966 and a brutal illegal occupation that started in June 1967 to this day. You could at most speak of 6 months in which this illegitimate entity didn't have an outright military dictatorship.
The same is true for the USA. The genocides, slavery, segregation, war crimes and crimes against humanity all over the world. I fail to see the point at which there was anything good about that monstrous empire.